Country: Italy, France, Finland, Germany
Year: 2001
Duration: 76'
“Padua, Italy, the southern suburbs, between Christmas 1999 and Easter 2000. It's a new millennium and after 45 years of business activity, Flavia's small hair salon closes. Right away an image: Flavia's hands gently massaging the damp hair of an elderly female client who is wrapped in a red towel. Then she holds out her hand and says, 'You can get up.' This is the only thing we see in the frame, an open hand, held out. A perfectly useless gesture, meant to accompany, animated by pure tenderness. In the movie, not far from Flavia's world, a young women's soccer team and a small traveling circus: tightrope walkers and knife throwers; harsh locker room discussions and training sessions in the fog; songs in solitude and a few steps of a dance. Chiusura is a movie of listening, of capturing time as it passes. Shampoo for the heart.”
Biography
film director
Alessandro Rossetto
(Padua, 1963) is a film writer, director, cinematographer, and cameraman. He has made documentaries that are considered some of the most significant of his generation (including Bibione Bye Bye One, 1999, and Chiusura, 2001, presented in competition at the Torino Film Festival; and The Colony (Vacanze di guerra), 2012). He debuted in fiction films in 2013 with Piccola patria (Small Homeland), presented at the Venice Film Festival, as was his next movie, Effetto Domino (2019). In 2021, he made The Italian Banker. This is how his work has been described by critics: “His cinematographic eye is priceless, full of curiosity and sensitivity. In his movies, with a mise-en-scène of rigor and poetry, he lets us encounter touching situations and people, showing us their intimate imagination, their view of the world, and their extraordinary, everyday life.”
FILMOGRAFIA
Il fuoco di Napoli (1997), Bibione Bye Bye One (1999), Chiusura (2001), Nulla due volte (cm, 2005), Feltrinelli (doc, 2006), L'orchestra di Piazza Vittorio: I diari del ritorno (doc, 2007), The Colony (Vacanze di guerra) (doc, 2012), Piccola patria (2013), Effetto Domino (2019), The Italian Banker (2021).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Alessandro Rossetto. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gian Enrico Bianchi, Alessandro Rossetto. FILM EDITING: Jacopo Quadri, in collaboration with Letizia Caudullo. SOUND: Marco Fiumara, Mirko Mencacci, Paolo Segat. PRODUCER: Carlo Cresto-Dina, Alessandro Rossetto. PRODUCTION: Fandango, in collaborazione con Tele+, Zdf Arte, Yle2, Oy Millennium Film.
CONTACT:
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